PLANNING ISSUE #3: LOW MEDIUM COST HOUSING IN MALAYSIA

The government have been focused more on low medium cost housing during the Seventh Malaysia Planwith total 350,000 units or 44% from the total of 800,000 units planned.

Table 1: Planned and Completed Housing Units According to House Price Category During Sixth and Seventh Malaysia Plan

	Sixth Malaysia Plan (1991-1995)			Seventh Malaysia Plan (1996-2000)
	Planned	Compeleted	%	Planned	Completed	%
PUBLIC SECTOR Hardcore Poor Housing Low Cost Low Medium Cost Medium Cost High Cost	- 126,800 - 44,600 2,600	- 46,497 - 35,195 2,850	- - - 78.9 109.6	35,000 60,000 110,000 20,000 5,000	17,229 60,999 18,782 21,748 2,866	42.9 101.7 17.1 108.7 57.3
Sub total	174,000	84,542	48.6	230,000	121,624	52.9
PRIVATE SECTOR Low Cost Low Medium Cost Medium Cost High Cost	217,000 - 155,900 26,100	214,889 - 247,241 100,778	99.0 - 158.6 386.2	140,000 240,000 110,000 80,000	129,598 53,800 206,208 348,250	92.6 22.4 187.5 435.3
Sub total Total	399,000 573,000	562,918 647,460	141.1 113.0	570,000 800,000	737,856 859,480	129.4 107.4

Source: Eight Malaysia Plan 2001

Although the number of units planned for low medium cost houses are the highest compared to other categories, but the achievement relatively low in both sectors. During the Seventh Malaysia Plan the construction of medium and high cost housing by private sector has achieved 187% and 435% respectively of the targeted units. This situation created the oversupply of housing stock for both categories during 1997-2000. The Asian economic crisis worsened the properties scenario in Malaysia with many unsold properties including medium and high cost housing.

The construction of low medium cost housing according to the states in Malaysia also shown the imbalance of distribution with several states not even building a single low medium cost houses until 1999 including the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur. From the study, in several states the construction of low medium cost housing has only started after the government announced the new ceiling price structure for low cost housing to be at RM42,000 per unit. Other factor including the economic crisis which require the housing developers to concentrate more focus on affordable housing due to the oversupply of medium and high cost housing

PLANNING ISSUE #2: ARTICLE ABOUT LOW-MEDIUM COST HOUSING

George Town: Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commision (MACC) officers have questioned Jelutong MP Jeff Ooi on the allegation of rampant black market activities on low-medium cost housing distribution in his constituency.

Four MACC officers met him at his service centre in Jelutong at noon Wednesday. Ooi had told reporters that he has evidence of improperties that needed to be investigated. Parti Cinta Malaysia (PCM) had lodged a report with the MACC in August over Ooi’s allegations

Ooi, the chief of staff of Chief Minister Lim Guang Eng, was quoted in a newspaper report as eluding that rampant balck market activities were the reasons that eligible applicants were denied LMC housing in his constituency.

Credit: The Star

PSA USM 2011 (DAY 1ST)

The first day of PSA USM 2011. During the day, all participants arrived at Dewan Budaya and registered there.

At night, on the way to Street Quay

Safely arrived at Street Quay

Lepaking lepaking :)

Snap-snap..

PSA USM crew

Let's go home guys :)

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THE END of Day 1

PLANNING ISSUE #1 : LOW MEDIUM COST HOUSING IN MALAYSIA

Housing provision in all countries are very crucial in order to ensure stability of socio-economic and to promote national development. Under the Seventh Malaysia Plan (1996-2000) and Eight Malaysia Plan (2001-2005), Malaysian government are committed to provide adequate, affordable and quality housing for all Malaysian, focused on the low income group. This is in line with Istanbul Declaration on Human Settlement and Habitat Agenda (1996) to ensure adequate shelter for all. Therefore, the Malaysian government under its 5 years National Plan has introduced the low, medium, and high cost housing categories.

Under the Seventh Malaysian Plan (1996-2000) the government for the first time introduced the Low Medium Cost Housing category.Previously it was classified under medium cost housing but due to its increasing demand in this category, the government take action to introduced the so called new housing category that is Low Medium Housing category. the purpose is to ensure that the middle low income group with salary ranging from RM 1,5001-RM2,500 per month able to own a house. However, provision of low medium cost housing ranging from RM42,001-RM60,000 per unit projected under Seventh Malaysia Plan is very disappointed with only 72,582 units completed from 350,000 units targeted nationwide.

OVERVIEW OF MALAYSIA HOUSING POLICY

Since independent, the provision of low cost housing has become priority of the government in the Five Years National Plans. Government agencies are directly responsible in providing housing for the poor in urban areas through establishment of the State Economic Development Corporations and various urban development agencies. The price for low cost housing was fixed at RM25,000 per unit for people with household income of less than RM750 per month since 1982.

In order to ensure the private sector to construct low cost housing, government through the local authority also impose 30% quota provision of low cost housing in every residential development to ensure that these houses are secured by targeted group, the government also imposed an open registration system. There are no specific quota or registered purchaser required for other housing categories.

Flats and single storey terrace houses always referred to low cost housing.

Source : Yahoo

RECOMMENDATIONS

At the federal level, National Housing Policy is very important for long term housing planning. This is due to government's objective to become developed country by the year 2020. By that, the government can control and monitor the construction of low medium cost housing altogether with the other aspects.

To ensure the housing developers to build more low medium cost housing, the incentive should be given to low cost housing such as tax relief, lower land premium, faster approval, etc. The government should also set the appropriate quota of low medium cost housing to be built by housing developers.

Article credit to: http://www.iut.nu/Malaysia_low%20cost%20housing.pdf

PROJECT #1 :SPATIAL DESIGN & COSTING

Our first studio project on sem 1.

Description:

We have to select a area of study and prepare a site analysis of the area. Based on site analysis, we have to propose a concept plan and a layout plan of a community interactive space, which includes elements of design, landscape and costing.

Requirement:

This is a group work, thus we have to work in pair. Who's my groupmate?

Introducing......

Hi Sabby :)

Site Requirement:

The site must be outside Penang Island. Thus we decided to choose site at Seberang Perai.It's not easy to choose a site. We have to consider many things in choosing site such as cooperation from the community, the development of the area, accessibility, etc. At last, we decided to choose Kg Mengkuang Titi. Why? Because Kg Mengkuang Titi is famous for the homestay programme. Moreover, it is a traditional Malay Village where almost 98% of community there are Malay.

TEASER!

Hi All!

Welcome to Ini Belog Planning :)

This blog is created to update about my planning studio project and attempt to discuss about planning issue in Malaysia. It's also part of my studio project.

Talking about blog..well this is not my first time having a blog. During my Studio 100, blog is also part of my studio project. That was my first time ever. Since that, i tried to create my own blog. Yeah, creating a blog is easy and simple but keep updating the blog ain't easy especially for those yang pemalas. *terasa

Wish me luck in this Blogging World!

Ok bye